Robert Redfield was an American anthropologist and ethnolinguist whose ethnographic work in Tepoztlan, Mexico, is considered a landmark of Latin American ethnography. He spent his entire career at the University of Chicago, where he received all of his higher education, joined the faculty in 1927, remained until his death in 1958, and served as Dean of Social Sciences from 1934 to 1946; he was also a co-founder, with fellow Chicago professors Robert Maynard Hutchins, Frank Knight and John Ulrich Nef, of the university's Committee on Social Thought.
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Birth DateSourced to the subject's own account Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account Death DateSourced to the subject's own account Death YearSourced to the subject's own account Nationality / CultureSourced to the subject's own account Defining ContributionSourced to the subject's own accountDeveloped the folk society concept and argued peasant communities should be studied through their connections to a wider civilization rather than as isolated units. 1 Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own accountPeasant Society and Culture (1956) 1 Connections
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Robert Redfield (December 4, 1897, October 16, 1958) was an American anthropologist and ethnolinguist, whose ethnographic work in Tepoztlan, Mexico, is considered a landmark of Latin American ethnography.
Career section
in 1953 he published The Primitive World and its Transformation and in 1956, Peasant Society and Culture.
Career section, 1956 publication sentence
in 1953 he published The Primitive World and its Transformation and in 1956, Peasant Society and Culture.
Career section, broader perspective sentence
Redfield decided it did not make sense to study people as isolated units, but rather it would be better to understand people in a broader perspective.
Practices Studied: Extended Family, University of Chicago Anthropology section, Vonnegut recollection
when I went to the University of Chicago, and I heard the head of the Department of Anthropology, Robert Redfield, lecture on the folk society, which was essentially a stable, isolated extended family, he did not have to tell me how nice that could be.
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